Linderhof

Gardening, Cooking and Decorating on the Prairie of Kansas

Welcome to Linderhof, our 1920's home on the prairie, where there's usually something in the oven, flowers in the garden for tabletops and herbs in the garden for cooking. Where, when company comes, the teapot is always on and there are cookies and cakes to share in the larder.

Monday, February 10, 2014

Cookie Jar Cookies For Tea

I adore tea cookies

shortbreads, sugars, gingers

But every once in a while

Husband Jim

yearns for what we term

"Cookie Jar Cookies"

Those bigger, heartier cookies

that go more with milk than tea.

An afternoon

"come home from school"

"come out of the cold"

kind of cookie.

And so Sunday I made

Oatmeal raisin cookies

With fruit and oatmeal

I think of them as

healthy

cookies!

As good as they are with a glass of milk in the afternoon,

they also go well with tea.

In the breakfast room

By myself

Where I often read one of the decorating or cookery books

that are always handy in the breakfast room.

These two are Laura Ashley

A House in the Cotswolds and A House in London

I love looking at the pictures in these books

These interiors are not the flowery fussy rooms that we often think of

Your lace tablecloth is lovely, and I always enjoy your blue and whites! The cookies look great - I like most any kind of homemade cookie, with tea or with milk. Have a great week, Martha, and a Happy Valentine's Day!